Lions of Lodowice – German mess
Control one of the German AFVs in THC’s 2023 play-by-comment Combat mission game? Use the comment section of this password-protected post to discuss tactics with your comrades, and communicate orders to me, the GM.
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Eight tenacious tank commanders needed
In this year’s play-by-comment Combat Mission game, the volunteer order issuers aren’t fighting a synthetic foe, they’re fighting each other. It’s January 1945. After a night of confused combat in a foggy/frozen Silesian city, four Soviet and four German AFV…
Miniature interview: Ali Hamza (the brains and muscle behind Battle Tactics 2025)
Graviteam, Black Hand Studios, Freedom Games, Matrix Games, 1C… you can count the devs that have attempted to produce Combat Mission-comparable 3D tactical wargames on the fingers of one hand. Counting the devs that have actually succeeded arguably requires just…
Lock ‘n Load Tactical Digital’s forty pence ‘demo’
I don’t recall Lock ‘n Load Tactical Digital’s vitals ever being as attractively priced as they are right now. Besides tutorials, the core game may only include two WW2 and two Vietnam War scenarios, but as those scenarios cost, in…
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, MapFrappe and other tools, work out my location.
Communal Combat Mission game imminent
If you’d like to participate in this year’s ‘play-by-comment’ CM clash, keep a close eye on the site during the coming week. I’m hoping to launch the game on Wednesday morning, and – in a break with tradition – the…
Type:Rider – fontastic and (almost) free
Unsurprisingly, Steam’s sub-50p bargain basement is awash with concentrated effluent. Without a robust hazmat suit and prodigious patience, you’ve zero chance of unearthing marvels like the (currently) 39p Type:Rider.
Combat Pilot – a promising speck on the horizon
I’d argue the natural skull slot for ‘Combat Pilot excitement’ is one adjacent to ‘Task Force Admiral excitement’. Whereas Drydock Dreams are intent on creating the most realistic/ravishing WW2 Pacific carrier ops wargame ever made, Entropy.Aero, a subsidiary of Barbedwire…